Susan Chahwan

Susan Chahwan is a Pre-primary Director and Director of Teaching and
Learning for children from aged 3 to 6 years old at Sutherland Shire
Montessori School. She is in the process of integrating Esperanto into
her classroom with the aid of Mondeto’s all-in-one program and says it
can be a valuable learning tool as well as a conduit to help build
relationships with people from different parts of the globe.“It is a
language that our class can learn together that is simple, systematic
and logically constructed. Success in learning this language will be
transferable when at another time we try and learn another language.“The
order of the language makes the concept of grammar easy to understand.
Being Latin-based, the roots of words and their meanings
are exposed and can be discussed. You don’t have to have a native
speaker at hand and Esperanto can be learned anywhere.”“I also think
the widespread learning of Esperanto could be seen as a mark of respect
to all cultures - to meet a part of the way by learning a language for
common use worldwide.”